Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 26 March 1964 | ||
Place of birth | Kruševo, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
Youth career | |||
Pitu Guli | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1981–1982 | Pobeda[1] | 17 | (0) |
1984–1988 | Vardar | 101 | (0) |
1988–1992 | Red Star Belgrade | 114 | (7) |
1992–1994 | Real Valladolid[2][3] | 54 | (2) |
1994–1995 | Denizlispor[4] | 28 | (0) |
1995–1996 | CSKA Sofia | 10 | (0) |
1996–1997 | FC Sion | 4 | (0) |
Total | 328 | (9) | |
International career | |||
1990–1992 | Yugoslavia | 11 | (1) |
1993–1996 | Macedonia | 10 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Ilija Najdoski (Macedonian: Илија Најдоски; born 26 March 1964) is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back for Red Star Belgrade. He was part of the Red Star Belgrade team which won the 1990–91 European Cup.
Club career[edit]
Najdoski also played in Spain for Real Valladolid in Spain's La Liga and Denizlispor in Turkey's Süper Lig.
International career[edit]
Najdoski represented both Yugoslavia and Republic of Macedonia in international matches. Even after Macedonian independence, he was included in the Yugoslav squad for Euro 1992,[5] but the nation would be suspended due to the Yugoslav Wars.
Najdoski later played in the first ever official match of Macedonia, played on 13 October 1993, against Slovenia.[6] His final international was a March 1996 friendly match against Malta.[7]
Personal life[edit]
He is the father of Macedonian player Dino Najdoski.
Najdoski is an ethnic Aromanian.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "zerodic.com". Zerodic.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "NAJDOSKI". LFP. Archived from the original on 10 September 2007. Retrieved 25 October 2008.
- ^ "ILIJA NAJDOSSKI". TFF. Retrieved 25 October 2008.
- ^ "Pancev también renuncia a la Eurocopa". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 25 May 1992. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
- ^ Match report at EU-Football.info
- ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ Nedeljković, Jelena (15 August 2020). "Јелена Недељковић: Социолошко религијско посматрање феномена влашке магије (I)". Vidovdan (in Macedonian).
External links[edit]
- Ilija Najdoski at National-Football-Teams.com
- Profile at Macedonian Football (in English)
- Ilija Najdoski at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- Rsssf.com